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The American Oligarchy was practically in possession of the world-market, and scores of countries were flung out of that market with unconsumable and unsalable surpluses on their hands.
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Of course, it would trade abroad certain things it produced for things it did not produce; but this would be quite different from an unconsumable surplus.
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Mulligan Jacobs burn with hatred unconsumable, and the small-handed half-caste Chinese cooks for all, and Sundry Buyers perpetually presses his abdomen, and O'Sullivan raves in the steel cell of the
CHAPTER XVI 2010
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The Military industrial complex, are dispersing tons of radio active material all over the middle east and making that soil unlikely to be able to produce any consumable food crops, as anything grown in that soil would be radioactive and unconsumable by any living thing.
Climate Change Conspiracy Theorists are Today's Flat Earthers 2009
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But oddly enough and despite all the lamentations of its death, sci fi in letters form not only already exists in such quantities that it would be impossible to consume it all but also it's industry produces an unconsumable amount of new product each year.
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Upon the delicate leaves thereof it retaineth for our use that sweet heavenly honey which is called the manna, and, although it be of a gummy, oily, fat, and greasy substance, it is, notwithstanding, unconsumable by any fire.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Upon the delicate leaves thereof it retaineth for our use that sweet heavenly honey which is called the manna, and, although it be of a gummy, oily, fat, and greasy substance, it is, notwithstanding, unconsumable by any fire.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The words therefore of our Saviour respect this: "Their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched; for every one of them shall be seasoned with fire itself, so as to become unconsumable, and shall endure for ever to be tormented, as salt preserves from corruption."
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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The albuminous, or gelatinous principle of plants is mainly useful in forming muscle; while the ashes of plants, the unconsumable parts, are for the supply, mainly, of bone, hair, and horn, but also of muscle and of blood, and to supply the waste which continually goes on.
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The glass was highly refractive and so perfectly translucent, I at first thought there was none there, and when I stood upon its edge, and looked down into a fiery gulf below, I instinctively thought of the "Lost People," who are said to wander amid torturing yet unconsumable flames.
Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch Mary E. Bradley Lane
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